Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself,
Because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
There Are Far, Far Better Things Ahead Than Any We Leave Behind
God Can't Give Us Peace And Happiness Apart From Himself Because There Is No Such Thing.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body
Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.
It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: What You too? I thought that no one but myself .
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.